Raising capital while still building the data needed to validate an idea is often one of the biggest hurdles for start-ups.

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

In 2025, more than 3,800 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated or frozen as part of the Trump administration’s effort to realign ...

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A striking change in how the world’s largest biomedical funding agency solicits research proposals has sparked debate about how it should fund science. US science after a year of Trump: what has been ...

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